Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University (Ukrainian: Дніпропетровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара) is one of the leading establishments of higher education in Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. The first four faculties were history and linguistics, law, medicine and physics and mathematics. Nowadays the university has level IV accreditation, with 20 faculties and nearly 1,300 professors, 850 of them PhDs. The university has about 15,000 Ukrainian students and offers 87 majors. It has about 3,000 international students from 20 countries. It has strong ties with one of the largest world's rocket space centres, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and other major industrial and scientific organizations in the Donetsk-Pridneprovsk area with population of more than 15 million people. Some of the 19 faculties of the university include: Famous former students include second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, writer Oles Honchar, novelist Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, and author of Chernobyl poems Lyubov Sirota.